Toilet seat



Aug. 10 1926. 1,595,629

A. SMITH TOILET SEAT Fi'lgd neo. 24, 1925 Patented Aug. 10, 1926.

UNITED STATES ALBIN SMITH, OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY. I

TOILET BEAT.

I Application led December 24,' 1925. Serial No. 77,435.

This invention relates to toilet seating appliances for adults and small children in which there are two seats, one small and the other large. The object of the invention is to provide a seating appliance of this character which may be fitted to any existing toilet bowl, may be readily converted to use either by an adult or by a child, will include certain safety means for use when the small seat'is occupied, and will on the whole be simple and inexpensive in construction.

To this end the invention includes, with a support including a large seat, a small seat arranged to overlie the iirst seat, and connecting members pivoted together and one pivoted to the support and the other to the second seat, the axes of all three pivots being horizontal and parallel. By this arrangement, assuming the small seat to have a cover, the small seat is capable of occupying a rearward position, or that which may be regarded as the normal one for covering the large seat symmetrically, or of being shifted forward to a position most convenient for its specific use. In fact, in the preferred construction one of said connecting members actually includes the cover. In any case the small seat (with its cover) is capable of being ivotally raised from the large seat, this being best accomplished when the small seat is arranged in its normal or rearward position.

The invention also includes, where one of said means includes the cover, means to releasably interlock the cover and small seat.`

The invention further includes, with a Apivotally connected seat and cover, pivotally connected folding' members vpivotally connecting the seat and cover at each side and serving as arms when the cover isl raised and the seat is down, and in addition'means to connect these arms at will to confine a child to the seat.

' In the drawing,

Fig. 1 is a vertical sectional front to rearv view of the improved toilet seating appliance, the small seat and the cover belng down;

Fi 2 is a similar view, the small seat be ingr own and the cover raised; l

ig. 3 is a plan, showing the small seat 4down and the cover, in section, elevated;

Figs. 4 and 5 are diagrams; and

Fig. 6 illustrates a detail.

The bowl 1 has an extension 2 at the back to which are attached the ttings 3 aford- Y ing at 4 a pivotl whose axis is horizontal, and on this .articulate the hinges 5 of the large seat 6; so much is the usual construction, the structure so `far described affordingv a support for Vparts hereinafter described.

7 is the small seat and 8 the cover. They are hinged together at the back on a horizontal axis, as by hinges 9, Ain such manner that the cover may be folded in facing rela tion to the seat and when elevated the movement is adapted to be limited by the back edge 8a of the cover bearing'substantially squarely against the top of the large seat. How these parts are otherwise Connected together I shall explain hereinafter.

The cover has at its back edge pivot members 10 whose pivot pins 10a are alined and have their .common axis parallel with that of pivot 4. These and the pivot 4 are connected lby links 11. v

Placed one at each side of the opening 7 in the small seat' are folding connections between this seat proper and the cover. Each of these is formed by two bars 12 13 pivotally connected together, as at 14, and a hinge element `20 (to be described) pivoted to bar 13, bar 12 being pivoted to the front or under face of the cover and the hinge element being suitably secured to the upper face of the seat, so that with the cover and seat a parallel-lever arrangement is formed. The cover is grooved` from front to rear, as at 8b, to receive each pair of the bars '12 13 when the seat is down and the bars are in folded relation to each other, permitting said cover to assume its proper close face to face relation to the seat 7 at that time. The parts 12, 13 and'20 when the cover is raisedand the seat down, form folding arms for the seat. In addition, the arms thus formed ma be connected at the front by a bar 16 acting both as a brace and as means coacting ywith the arms to confine the child to the seat; this bar has a slot 16a at one end receiving aheaded stud 17 on one of the bars 12 and an inwardly open hook 16b at its other end. adapted to receive a headed stud 18 on the opposite bar 12, and when not in use it may be unhooked from the latter stud and swung into coincidence with the lirstnamed vbar 12 and held in that position by engaging its free en d in the corresponding slot 8b of the cover. l

The means to releasably interlockl the small seat and cover so that when the cover is raised or lowered said seat will partake of the movement is here afforded by a pair of clips 19 inset in the cover each side of each of its grooves 8b in such position that When the cover and small seat are in face to face relation these clips receive and grip the projections 20 which may be conveniently formed by the barrels ofthe hinge elements 20 that-are used to afford the pivotal connections between bars 13 and the small seat.

The mentioned connecting members are afforded on the one hand by the links 11 and on the other b l. the cover (see the diagrams, Fi 4 an 5). In Fig. 4 the connection a orded by the two members is buckled or `partially folded and the small seat is consequentlyr back or `in its normal position for coverm with-its cover 8 the large seat symmetrica ly; in this position the small seat with its cover may b e raised and lowered for uncovering or covering the large seat, the movement taking place aboutA the axis at 4. In Fig. 5 the said connection is extended or straightened and the small seat is consequently conveniently forward for use; since in t e example shown one of the members of the connectlon includes the cover the latter as an incident of the motion of said member assumes in this position of the small seat the elevated position (see Fig. 2). In this position the cover rear edge 8 is adapted to'bear and therefore find su port on the large seat, and it affords a bac for the small seat.

Havin thus fully described my invention what'I c' aim and desire to secure b'yvLetters Patent is:

1. In a toilet seating a pliance, the combination of a support inc udin a seat, another-seat arranged to overlie t e first seat,

and one and connecting members pivoted together ivoted to said support and the other to t e second seat, the axes of the pivots between said members .and the support and second seat being hor1zontal and par allel.

2. In a toilet seating appliance,lthe combination of a support including a seat, another seat arranged to overlie the rst seat, and connecting members pivoted tovether and one pivoted to said support andD the other to the second seat, one of said members including a 'cover orthe second seat and the axes of the pivots between said members and the support and second seat being horizontal and arallel. y

3. n a toilet seating-appliance, the combination of a support includin a seat, another seat arran ed to overlie t e firstk seat, connecting mem ers pivoted to ether and one pivoted to said support and t e other tothe second seat, the axes of the pivots between said members and the su port and second seat being horizontal an parallel and means to releasably interlock for pivotal movement together the second seat and the member includin the, cover.

4. In combination, an apertured support, a structure arranged in covering relation to the aperture of said support and pivotally connected with said su port on a horizontal axis, said structure inc udin a seat member and a cover member for t eseat member pivotally connected on an axis parallel with the first axis, a foldable arm connecting the seat and cover members and means on one of said members cooperating with said arm to releasably connect them together.

In testimony whereof I aiiix my signature.

ALBIN SMITH. 

